Children’s taste in toys is changing, with ever younger consumers opting for smartphones and videogames instead of building blocks. Lego is joining other industry leaders in shifting focus to toys for a digital era, Fox Business reports. Picking up a logistics news...
Oil logged a weekly gain of more than 8% Friday, July 28 — the largest such rise since early December, MarketWatch reports. Three developments indicating tighter supplies ahead are lifting prices: The U.S. is reporting a drop in its domestic stockpiles. The political...
Descartes Datamyne provides supply chain managers with fresh news on domestic ocean cargo gateway trends and productivity in its U.S. Port Report 2016, writes Patrick Burnson in Logistics Management. Brendan McCahill, senior vice president of Trade Data Content at...
The Dominican Republic is the leading Latin American importer and fifth-ranked importer overall of electric vehicles (EVs) manufactured in the United States as of first-quarter 2017, according to newly available trade data from Descartes Datamyne, América Economía...
After falling to historic lows in 2016, ocean freight rates began to recover towards the end of last year, writes Cathy Roberson in Pharma Logistics IQ. Meanwhile, air freight rates remain high and capacity is tightening. More pharmaceutical shippers are looking to...
Effective supply chain design requires taking an end-to-end view ... and that means looking beyond the four walls of the enterprise to what is happening (or could happen) in the world at large. Recognizing this, providers of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions are...
What is the #1 technology topic Descartes CEO Ed Ryan is asked about? Drones. Which is why a drone took flight above the audience at his keynoter at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Global User & Partner Conference in March. Coolness factor aside, as Ryan pointed out,...
LogisticsTI takes a look at Alibaba’s OneTouch online import-export services (including loans) aimed at small and medium enterprises (SMEs) ... although, take note, Maersk, CMA CGM and a host of other undeniably big transportation providers and forwarders recently...
Wear and Tear, a four-part series of reports from digital publication Undark, documents the impacts of tanneries and textile mills that take advantage of weak environmental regulation in developing economies. Produced by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship...
The US embargo against Cuba still limits trade between the two countries, but an analysis for the Miami Herald by Datamyne shows steady traffic between several Florida air- and seaports and the island. Trade reached almost $65 million last year. In 2015, the Port...
